1004 – “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

-Anaïs Nin

768 – “I must be a mermaid, … I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”

–Anaïs Nin

434 – “I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.”

–Anaïs Nin [Significant Paraphrasing, See Source Notes]

37 – “Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.”

– Anaïs Nin